Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it, — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence.… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“Today 60% of workers in the private sector receive their insurance through their employer. I believe that by 2025 fewer than 20% of workers at private companies will continue to receive their health insurance through an employer-sponsored program. Nevertheless many will still receive an employer contribution, a so-called defined contribution toward the purchase of health insurance in the exchange. I… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share
